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IMPROVEMENT IN APPARATUS FOR FLUTING- AND QUILLING.

\ The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

rate description thereof, reference beinghad to the acooinpauying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, and being a part of this specication.

rlhe design of this invention is to produce au adjustable apparatus, by the use of which Aadjustment the apparatus can be usedv for either' uting, plaiting, or (pulling textile fabrics, as may be desired, and consists in the arrangement of adjustable bridges upon a proper table, so arranged that they may be raised or lowered at will, to suit the various sizes of iluting or quillingrods, and in the necessary slides, blocks, and screws, by means of which this adjustability is obtained.

A, in the drawings, represents a suitable table or bed, upon which are secured the slides B, workin g upon screws a, passing through the slots b.

These slides should be ofthe height or thickness of the smaller iutiug-rods h,`to be used, and upon the slides rest the bridges C, and are secured in place by the thumb-nut and screws c.

A series of holes isinade through the table or bed, so that these bridges maybe placed upon the slides at any required distance apart, as may be desired.

Should it be desired to use larger iiuting or quillingrods, h', the slides may bepushed out i'ronl under the bridges and blocks D, to correspond with the diameter of the larger rods inserted under the ends of `the bridges, or thinner blocks may be interposed between the slides and bridges, or the bridges may be raised as required, by set-screws, suitably arranged and attached for the purpose.

The drawing shows the apparatus in use in {lut-ing and plaiting, (Z representing the plaiting, and e, the iiuting, and by the interposition of blocks f under v,the bridges, at stated intervals, the uting may be varied with plain surfaces y.

The operation oi' quilling is the saine as that of flirting, except in this; that the latter operatesthe whole width of the fabric, while the former only op crates upona portion of it, like a border, or i'ill to a cap. This is done by allowing that portion of the fabric which is not to b'e operated upon, to reina-in outside the bridges, on either side, while the part to be operated upon is carried under the bridges.

YWhat I claim as iny invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is'

lhe combination of the table or bed A, slide B, screws a, bridges C, rods 71, thumb-unt and screws e, and blocks D, when arranged and operating substantially as and for the purpose described.

GEO. R. HOUGH'ION.

Witnesses:

JAS. I. DAY, H. F. EBEn'rs. 

